Steve Reich names his successors

Steve Reich names his successors

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norman lebrecht

November 04, 2016

In a Q&A posted by Jessica Duchen on her site, the octogenarian post-minimalist was asked about the future of music. He sounds quite upbeat:

I’m no longer young and sometimes foolish, so I’ll quit while I’m ahead. But, I can tell you this, in the English-speaking world, there’s a huge group of wonderful young composers, so many good ones – like Nico Muhly and Bryce Dressner here, and Jonny Greenwood (- pictured – of Radiohead, who performed Electric Counterpoint at Glastonbury in 2014) in your country.

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Comments

  • rg says:

    Wow, Reich mentions Jonny Greenwood (born 1971) but not Thomas Adès (born 1971)?

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